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The article I wrote wants to mention every point that should be adressed (in my opinion) to make a good calculator. Qalculate, like many others, does address some of them.

But as far as I know, only Chalk addresses all of them.

Comment · 4 years ago

An opportunity to post again my thoughts about software calculators !

https://chachatelier.fr/chalk/article/chalk.html

Comment · 4 years ago

Let's say that : if you do not use arithmetic interval, at some point your floating point computations will be wrong and misleading if you do not carry information about how much bits are garbage. Chalk does that.

Comment · 4 years ago

You can achieve that, this is a preference of Chalk about what should be the next input

Comment · 4 years ago

Just a zip on the web page

Comment · 4 years ago

RPN is just an option (provided by Chalk). The "minimalist" GUI is just the introduction of the full article. You have to reach <https://chachatelier.fr/chalk/article/chalk.html#toc-36> to go deeper into numerical problems of usual softwares.

Once again, Chalk is not the best software ever, it is just what I have to build myself to fix the problems I usually encounter. Not to say that all other softwares are equally bad, but to my knowledge, none of them will address as much limitations at the same time.

Comment · 4 years ago

Chalk is kind of robust, I am surprise you hit a bug at first use. Go to <https://chachatelier.fr/chalk/chalk-contact.php> for bug reports

Comment · 4 years ago

Thanks ! There were so many things to say that I was afraid nobody would read up to the end. GUI is only the visible part of the iceberg. Number representation (to keep exact values), accuracy, interval arithmetics... are hard to introduce in the first place.

Comment · 4 years ago

Chalk has an option to use RPN

Comment · 4 years ago

Thanks, I have added some more "mobile compliant" CSS styles.